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Will an Underground train operate again to Ongar?

A REDUNDANT Isle of Wight tube train may be given a third lease of life back in service on a former part of London Underground.

The newly-formed London Transport Traction Group (LTTG) wants to acquire one of the soon-to-be-withdrawn 1938 tube stock units from the Island Line and run it on the Epping

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